Furnace-valve



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet R. STEVBN S.

. PURNAGB VALVE. No. 570,272. Patented Oct. 27, 1896.

4 w'mzsszs INVENTOR Sheet 2.

2 Sheets (N o ModeLj R; STEVENS FURNAGE VALVE.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD STEVENS, OF BRADDOOK, ?ENNSYLVANIA FU RNACE-VALVE.

SPECIFICATION formig part of Letters Patent No. 570,272, dated October- 27, 189 6.

Application filed April 17, 1896.

Z'0 all whom it Duty concerns Be it known that I, RICHARD STEVENS, of Braddock, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Furnace-Valves, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawngs, forming part of this specificaton, in which- 4 Figure 1 is a side elevation of myimproved hot-blast valve. Fig. 2 is a plan View, partly in section. Fig. 3 is adetail vertical section on the line III III of Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a detail view of the divided metallic packing-ring. Fig. 5 is a cross-section of the same, and Fig. 6 is a detail View of the ring-clamping mechanism.

The object of my inventioi is to provide means for preventing the leakage of air or gases around the stems of valves, which in the use of valves for furnaces is apt to rapidly corrode and destroy the stem, and is a source of serious trouble and injury to the mechanism. i

The invention consists in combining with the valve-stem a paeking ring which surrounds it and means for clamping the packing-ring, tightening the same after the valve has been moved, and releasing it prior to its movement. i

In the drawings, 2 represents the chanber of a hot-blast valve, and 3 is a valve-stem, which extends through the head of the Valveohamber and through a cylindrical bushing 4 set therein. At the upper end of this bushing is a conieal or concave seat 5, on which is set a divided metallie packing-ring 6, and upon it is set a rotary follower or gland '7, the lower face of which is also tapering or conical. This gland has a projeeting arm S, by which it may be rotated partially, and on its upper face it has an inclined portion or portions 9, fitting against corresponding portions 10 on a cap-ring 11, which is fitted upon and is bolted to the bushin g. On turning the gland by means of the lever 8 the engagement of the faces 9 and 10 forces the gland down upon the packing-ring, and by reason of the tapering form of the surfaces hearing against the ring the latter will be compressed and caused Serial No. 588,052. (No model.)

After the furnace-valve has been moved so' as to admit hot air or gas into the valVe-chamber the operator .moves the rotary gland, so as to compress the packing-ring around the valve-stem as above e'xplained; and when it is next desired to move the valve the gland is turned in the reverse direction, so as to relieve thepressure on the packing-ring and to permit the stern to be moved within the same.

The advantages of my invention will be appreeiated by those skilled in the art, and within the scope of my broader claim many changes in the form and Construction of the parts may be made by the skilled mechanic. For example, other mechanism may be used for compressing and releasing the packingring, and the packing-ring itself may be modified in Construction and arrangement.

I claim- 1. As means for packing a furnace-valve stem, the combination with the hot-gas-valve stem of a surrounding packing-ring, a follower `or gland adapted to be moved to compress the same tightly and to clamp the stem, and adapted also to be moved in a reverse direction to 'loosen the packng and release the stem, and means-for so moving the gland or follower at each motion of the stem; substantially as described.

2. As means for packing a furnace-valve stem, the combination with the hot-gas-valve stem of a surrounding packing-ring, a follower or gland adapted to be moved to compress the sane tightly and to clamp the stem, and adapted also to be moved in a reverse direction to loosen the packing and release the stem, and mechanisn extending to the position of the operator of the furnacc-valve 5 substantially as described.

3. As means for packing a furnace-valve stem, a surrounding metallic packing-ring, a rotatory follower or gland. adapted to com- IOO press the same, and a proj ectn g arm for turning the follower 01* gland 5 substantially as descrbed.

4:. The eombna tion With the valve-sten, of

a bushing through which it passes, a concave seat at the end of the bushing, a paekngring, a rotatory follower 01' gland on the bushng hearing on the ring, and a cap-rng fixed to the bushing and hearing 011 the follower or gland; substantially as described. IO

In testmony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

RICHARD STEVENS. XVtnesses:

H. W. CORWIN, G. I. HOLDSHIP. 

